Snap-fastener socket.



a. n. SIMONS. SNAP FASTENER SOCKET. I .APPLIOATIOK-IILED APR. 21, 1908.

900,789, Patented 001;. 13, 1908..

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST D. SIMONS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a certain tact with the spring element, whichlast is' formed by slitting the metal and converging the slittedportions to form a mouth whose resilient lips snap. about the stud as itis forced into the mouth and hold it until forcibly disengaged. The foldserves to prevent deformation of the spring element by external pressurein setting the socket and in its use.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, 1n the severalfigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figurel is a baseplan view. Fig. 2 is, a mouth plan view. Fig. 3 is a cross-section. Fig.4 is a side elevation. Fig. 5 is a crosssection showing the fold and.spring element out of actual contact. Fig. 6 1s across-section'illustrating one way of setting the socket.

A suitable fiat circular blank of metal has the base a drawn up andprovided with a hole b. I Between this base and the spring element is afold c of the metal which extends from the base toward the mouth ofthesocket and returns to the level of the baseand the remainder of themetal isslit asindicated at d, and the sections of metal between theseslits are indicated at e and being :individually springs andconstituting c'ol spring element of the-socket. These springs are benttoward each other and form the mouth of the socket, indicatedat theirextremities g being so many lips yielding indiectively the vidually andcollectively to permit ingress and egress of the stud relatively to thesocket.

As indicated in Fig. 4, the socket is a button-like article, the outersprings being so curved as to converge over the fold, and in thisconvergence coming into actual (Fig. 3) or approximate (Figs. 5 and 6)contact with the old and by it being reinforced and protected from beingcrushed in or otherwise deformed by pressure in setting or attaching thesocket and in use.

The reinforcin of the spring element by means of the fol also serves toprevent the changing of the diameter of the mouth of the socket bypressure in setting the socket onthe goods. I 4

As indicated in Fig. 6, a socket may be applied to goods by means of anysuitable fastening rivet or headed eyelet, as h, which is passed throu hfrom one side of the goods 1nto the hole in the back of the socket, whensuch socket is arranged upon the other side of the goods, and the openleading end iof the fastening device is clenched or upset Wit/l1 in thehollow portion of the socket, substantially as indicated in said figure.

By the construction described, a socket is roduced which may beeconomically manuactured, of a single integral piece, and which is veryefficient in use, and very durable, and,'further, one which it ispractically impossible to deform by any 0 pressures to which sucharticles are subjected in setting them and in use.

What I claim is 1.'A snap fastener socket, having a base provided wlthan attaching hole, a fold projectin from said base, and an outerfoldencirc ing and fold-inclosing spring element extending from thelevel of the base downward and over the fold and composed of a number ofsprings converging to form the mouth of the socket and whose edges formstud-engaging lips, the fold being located be-- tween the base and thespring element.

2. A sna fastener socket, having a base provided with an attaching hole,a fold pro ectin from said base, and an outer foldencircTingand foldinclosing spring element extending from the level of the base downtheordinary mana oa. 13,190

ward and over the fold and coinposed of a the'fold being located betweenthe base and 10 number of convergin s rings in contact with the springelement. the outer portion 0 t c said fold-"whereby In testimony whereofI have hereunto set said springs are reinforced against .pressure myhand this20th day of April A. D. 1908.

m setting and using, and constituting a mouth having lips formed of thefree ends of ERNEST SIMONS' said springs which engage the com lementalWitnesses stud of the snap fastener when 3 1d stud is A. F. Mourns,inserted in the socket through the mouth, P moY WARNER.

